How to get value from JavaScript function

[NEWBIEPRO]

/*This is time counter -it will update every minute
I want to get the value from javascript and save it to database?
*/
 
<form name="myForm" method="post">
 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
var num = 0;
function IncCounter() { 
num = num + 1;   // increment counter by 2
document.myForm.counter.value = num;
t = setTimeout('IncCounter()', 600);   // run once per minute
 
} 
 
</script>
 
<?
$conn=mysql_connect("localhost","root","root") or die("Cannot connect to server");
mysql_select_db("test",$conn) or die("cannot select database");
 
echo "<input name=\"counter\" type=\"text\" onFocus=\"IncCounter()\"> " //how save this value to database?
echo "<label id=\"counter\" onfocus=\"IncCounter()\"> </label>" //how to get the value and view as label
?>
</form>

hope all senior here could help

[johny10151981]

create a hidden type input field in the form

and in the IncCounter function set the hidden field value with the incremented value. by the way, your label tag will never get focus, as far i can recall...